town of milton

Administration & Planning Standing Committee February 13 2012

Mike Cluett

This coming Monday night February 13, 2012 will be the Administration & Planning Standing Committee meeting at Town Hall starting at 7pm.

This Committee consists of five Councillors and the Mayor. Committee members review all reports, formulate policy and make recommendations to Council on matters over which Council has authority under the Municipal Act, the Planning Act and other legislation. Recommendations are made in the areas of corporate administration, personnel, legal issues, planning and finance.

The Administration and Planning Committee reviews the operating and capital budgets as well as various financial matters affecting the Town of Milton.

The agenda for the meeting can be found here.

Some of the highlites inlcude:

  • Public Meeting for zoning amendment for property owned by Zag Properties,
  • Public Meeting for zoning amendment for property owned by Victoria Hill Finance Group
  • Public Meeting for proposed condominium plan owned by Camcast Inc.
  • Technical report for proposed amendment of zoning bylaw for property owned by Durante Enterprises.

As always you can watch online on Monday night at 7pm.  If you have any questions or comments for any of these reports, please email me mike@mikecluett.ca

Community Services Standing Committee Meeting February 6 2012

Mike Cluett

The next meeting of the Community Services Standing Committee is this coming Monday February 6, 2012 at Milton Town Hall beginning at 7pm.

This Committee consists of five Councillors and the Mayor. Committee members review all reports, formulate policy and make recommendations to Council on matters over which Council has authority under the Municipal Act. These matters are related to Community Services, Fire, Library, Transit and other operational programs. If you wish to be a delegation at the Community Services Committee, you must register in writing with the Clerk’s Office by 10:00 a.m. on Monday, the day of the meeting.

The following Council Members sit on the Community Services Committee:

  • Gordon Krantz, Mayor
  • Councillor Tony Lambert, Wards 1, 6, 7 & 8
  • Councillor Greg Nelson, Ward 2
  • Councillor Rick Malboeuf, Ward 4
  • Councillor Arnold Huffman, Ward 5
  • Councillor R. Di Lorenzo, Wards 7

Here is a copy of the agenda for you to review.  Some of the items to be discussed include:

  • Q4 2011 Engineering Services Report
  • Q4 2011 Licensing & Enforcement Report
  • Housekeeping Amendment for Fireworks
  • Presentation on GTA West Corridor

If you cant make it to the meeting, as always you can watch online. Just click on my links to the right and enjoy!

Milton Velodrome Moving Forward with conditions

Mike Cluett

Subject to getting approvals for zoning in the area from the Region of Halton (ROPA 38) and the province of Ontario, Milton will be moving forward in constructing the velodrome facility for the Toronto 2015 Pan Am games on the Milton Education Village.  Council voted 9-2 last night in a marathon meeting to approve going ahead.

Listen to the velodrome discussion on the Scott Thompson show AM900 CHML this afternoon.

Update on 4th Line Closure

Mike Cluett

Both Sharon Barkley and I cornered staff last night (well almost like that 🙂 ) to discuss the length of time its taken to have the work completed on time.  Back in October it was only supposed to be a month closure of the road between Menefly Place and Beatty Trail and its now approaching 4 months.

Staff gave me an indication that they are “very close to completion” of the project and they have been hampered by overly wet weather, construction equipment failure among other issues and thats why its taken so long.  If you live in the area, I know your patience is wearing thin but we were given a stronger than normal indication that it should be 3 more weeks at the very most if not earlier.

Again we are continuing to monitor this situation and if anything else changes, I will be letting you know.

Thanks again for your patience in this matter.

Velodrome Public Session Last Night

Mike Cluett

On behalf of Regional Councillor Colin Best and myself, I would like to thank everyone who attended the public session on the velodrome last night.  The turnout was a lot better than many other sessions Ive held and that just goes to show people want information on the future of this endeavour.

We tried our best to provide as much up to date information as possible and answer questions of residents.  There is still some concerns we have and over the next few days I will be diving into the business plan and posting details on my site as I go through it.  Its an important decision to make and we as a council have to be fully informed before we make that decision.

If you would like to review the online version of the report (both links are about 9MB) you can check them out for some light reading 🙂

http://www.milton.ca/MeetingDocuments/Council/agendas2012/rpts2012/Milestone%20005-001-12%20Velodrome.pdf

http://www.milton.ca/MeetingDocuments/Council/agendas2012/rpts2012/Milestone%20005-001-12%20Velodrome_%20Part%20II.pdf

Here is a couple of articles from the Milton Canadian Champion courtesy of Christina Commisso & Matthew Van Dongen of the Hamilton Spectator.

Velodrome Concerns Raised

Make Velodrome A Go

Here is some coverage from CHCH News who came out to the Milton Sports Centre.